Official description

Description

Mission details

1.

Description

Aircraft type

Notes

Not yet known

Mission Statistics

2. FRANKFURT

Description

MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft type

B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes

A mix of 206 P-47s and P-51s provided escort. Mix not given in available data.

457th BG MISSION NO. 144: FRANKFURT, GERMANY, 5 NOVEMBER 1944
The disruption of Germany's transportation system was the focus of attack for the mission. The Group comprised the 94th A Combat Wing with Major Syptak as Air Commander, and Lt. Charles E. Barrier as pilot.
The Group assumed its proper position in the Division assembly and began its route to Germany. Because of winds being diflerent from those briefed, the formation was three minutes late in reaching the IP. Ten-tenths clouds existed in the target area and the bomb run was made by means of PFF equipment"
The 45Tth bombed in Group formation. All three squadrons released their bombs on the smoke markers from the lead airmaft with fair to good results. The lead squadron dropped from 26,000 feet.

Flak was moderate but accurate with eleven aircraft being damaged.

Units

GroupThe 457th Bomb Group began combat operations during the Big Week of 20-25 February when American bombers carried out concentrated raids against German aircraft bases, factories and assembly plants. The air crews' targets on that first mission were...

Mission Statistics

3. HANAU

Description

MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

Not yet known

Mission Statistics

4. KAISERSLAUTERN

Description

MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

Not yet known

Mission Statistics

5. KARLSRUHE

Description

MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

A mix of 228 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.

Units

GroupThe 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...

Mission Statistics

Tonnage dropped

81.40

Number of aircraft Effective

25

Number of aircraft Missing In Action

2

Number of aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair

1

Number of aircraft Damaged

13

Number of people Killed In Action

3

Number of people Wounded in Action

6

6. LANDAU

Description

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

Not yet known

Mission Statistics

7. LUDWIGSHAVEN

Description

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

Not yet known

Mission Statistics

8. LUDWIGSHAVEN

Description

MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft type

Not yet known

Notes

A mix of 192 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.

Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb GroupKilled in Action (KIA). B-24 AC #42-51231. Crashed returning from first combat mission. Seven of the crew were severely injured and three were Killed in Action (KIA).

Military | Captain | Pilot | 458th Bomb Group1Lt Fred J. Eisert and his crew arrived at Horsham St. Faith on September 11, 1944, just as the group was coming off of combat operations for a month in order to ferry gasoline to Patton’s army in France. The crew flew their first mission on October 5...

Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.